Ubisoft did not start 2023 in the best way; On the contrary, it did so with terrible news about its performance, unfulfilled expectations, and even delays and multiple cancellations. In recent years, the French company has earned a reputation for being one of the least knowledgeable in game development, ending up behind not 1 or 2 or 3, but several years. Well, a new report with employee confessions reveals Ubisoft’s shortcomings and internal problems, such as its stubbornness with Battle Royale games and as a service despite poor results.
Ubisoft is almost synonymous with game lag. The company just announced that it canceled 7 undisclosed games in the last year alone, which is alarming when you’re also talking about the various games it has delayed.
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Ubisoft blames the pandemic, but its employees disagree
Well, regarding the delays, Ubisoft’s management has supposedly used the hybrid and completely remote work modality as a pretext, measures that were taken in the framework of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). For this reason, Ubisoft is planning to phase out completely remote work starting next year, according to one of several company employees who spoke on condition of anonymity for a report by journalist and whistleblower Tom Henderson (via Insider Gaming).
However, employees believe that the reason for the delays is rather that the canceled games “were not what players wanted”, as test sessions and surveys revealed. Encouragingly, this doesn’t mean all of these projects should be cancelled, just that almost all employees agreed that they require a little more polish to make them work.
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“Ubisoft doesn’t lack games, it takes forever to finish them”
One of these employees narrowed down Ubisoft’s situation accurately and concisely: “We’re certainly not running out of games, they’re just taking forever.” The same employee gave as an example the title he is working on, which has not been announced and whose development began in 2019, but whose debut is scheduled for 2025 or 2026 if it goes well (there are other projects that are scheduled for up to 2027). .
Something very interesting is that one of the employees said he knew that Ubisoft had at least a dozen battle royale titles in different stages of development at a certain point, but he does not know how many of them are still standing. Some games as a service have proven to be good business, but the vast majority have failed and this has been seen in the deterioration of the image that players have of them, who are tired to a certain extent and have predicted their premature failure, as happened with the infamous BABYLLON’S FALL.
Let’s remember that Ubisoft announced months ago a Battle Arena game, Project Qwhich received a lot of criticism, although the company cleared up doubts and made it very clear that it is not a new Battle Royale.
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